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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

30km NE of Oakhurst, CA

· 16 km deep · released about 9 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Madera County 45 kmMariposa County 49 kmMono County 65 kmTuolumne County 80 kmFresno County 84 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (md)
Depth
16 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Madera County, 45 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1972 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 9 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 110× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 9 lb of TNT

Energy from the Gutenberg–Richter relation (log10E = 1.5M + 4.8), rounded to two figures; bar length is magnitude, which is already a logarithm of energy. Magnitudes of past earthquakes from the USGS catalogue.

Where

Epicentre 37.4782, -119.3725. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Madera County, CA 45 km (28 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Madera County
Mariposa County, CA 49 km (30 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Mariposa County
Mono County, CA 65 km (41 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Mono County
Tuolumne County, CA 80 km (50 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Tuolumne County
Fresno County, CA 84 km (52 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Fresno County
Merced County, CA 123 km (77 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Merced County

Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.

Aftershocks so far

60 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.

  1. 1.7 14km SE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  2. 2.3 6km SE of Shaver Lake, CA
  3. 1.5 Central California
  4. 1.6 22km NE of North Fork, CA
  5. 1.6 16km WSW of Toms Place, CA
  6. 1.6 12km SE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  7. 1.8 22km SSE of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  8. 2.2 29km NE of Oakhurst, CA
  9. 1.7 20km SE of Yosemite Valley, CA
  10. 2.2 5km SW of North Fork, CA
  11. 1.6 22km SW of Toms Place, CA
  12. 2.0 22km SW of Toms Place, CA
  13. 1.6 15km ESE of Yosemite Valley, CA
  14. 1.7 5km W of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  15. 1.9 18km WSW of Toms Place, CA

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of . QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.0 on 2020-04-05 — it released about 4,000 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

On USGS

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